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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 39
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David seeks to control his tongue—Man is altogether vanity—He is a stranger and a sojourner on earth.
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<center><span class='small'>TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, EVEN TO JEDUTHUN, A PSALM OF DAVID.</span></center>
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I said</span>, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="James 3: 2 (1-13).">tongue</a>: I will keep my <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/39/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 141: 3.">mouth</a> with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
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I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, <i>even</i> from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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My heart was <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 20: 9.">hot</a> within me, while I was musing the fire burned: <i>then</i> spake I with my tongue,
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Lord</span>, make me to know mine end, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 119: 84.">measure</a> of my days, what it <i>is; that</i> I may know how frail I <i>am.</i>
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Behold, thou hast made my days <i>as</i> an handbreadth; and mine age <i>is</i> as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state <i>is</i> altogether <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 40: 15; Dan. 4: 35.">vanity</a>.  Selah.
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Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Treasure."><i>riches</i></a>, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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And now, Lord, what wait I for?  my hope <i>is</i> in thee.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Deliverance.">Deliver</a> me from all my <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/39/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Transgression.">transgressions</a>: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst <i>it.</i>
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Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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When thou with rebukes dost <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR chasten.">correct</a> man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/39/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>.  Selah.
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Hear my prayer, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I <i>am</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/39/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strangers.">stranger</a> with thee, <i>and</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/39/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 26: 3.">sojourner</a>, as all my fathers <i>were.</i>
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O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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